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[0452] Under A Killer Balloon: Episode 1, Page 10

└ posted on Monday, 4 February 2013, by Novil

Sandy South: After recovering the stolen goods, we delivered the delinquent to the authorities. Unsurprisingly for this hellhole of a city, the judge turned out to be no stranger to cruel and unusual punishment.

Ye Thuza: No sweets for a month!

Sandy South: However, the lavish salary for my services soon dispelled all these superfluous thoughts on human rights violations.

Why change the sign, when you can just say that the agency is named ‘Jenny Murphy’? There’s nothing stating that Jenny Murphy is anything other than a name, so just go with it! Seriously, tomorrow is way too much effort into changing that sign.

Do I take it that “sweets” in this context is referring to desserts? In some parts of the world (squalid, unimportant third-world backwaters like the USA for example), sweets are lollies.

Poor Qoo. But at least he got some tummy rubs out of it (from Yuna, earlier).

Really, what part of the USA? My squalid, unimportant third-world backwater portion of the USA never equated the term ‘sweets’ to mean ‘lollies’. I have a feeling this may be a regional thing. Where I am, sweets means deserts/candy… nice and simple! *Unless you are talking about panel 2, which is an entirely different kind of sweets.*

How is that a bad mental image? Cloud could be giving Qoo belly rubs, or even ear skritches (I have yet to meet a fur-bearing ANYTHING that doesn’t like being skritched behind the ears. I like being skritched behind the years – my wife has used it to calm me down when people are getting irritating…

@Paeris Kiran: You got that right.
As someone else has said, the concept of “cruel and unusual punishment” is silly. If it’s not cruel, what is it? Kind? And if it’s not unusual, what is it? Usual?
In a very real sense, both cruel and unusual define punishment, otherwise it’s not punishment.

Of course we then get into the questions of whether or not certain forms of punishment are appropriate or effective, but that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms. :-p

Just read through the comic from beginning to this strip, and I gotta say I really enjoyed it. Woo was fun, but I have to admit my favorite character was Larisa, with Cloud and his family right behind her and then just barely behind them Sandy and Woo, though the interactions between all of them are awesome.

Also… is it just me, or does anyone else think it’s possible that if Larisa and / or Cloud ever find out about Woo being able to talk, that they’ll just shrug it off? Well, possibly after Larisa’s after likely initial reaction which will almost certainly involve flames…